Almost everyone uses language, so inevitably almost everyone thinks they are an expert in it. I don’t consider myself an expert, though most of my work requires at least language competence and sometimes actual skill, but I do follow the blogs featured on this feeds page.
(If you are wondering where the translation-related feeds have all gone, I have put them on their own page.)
Most of the blogs represented here are in English, most of the time, but don’t be surprised to find other languages used. Go with the flow – I occasionally find myself pleasantly surprised at how much I can grasp in languages I have never seen before.
Language On the Net
languagehat.com » Two Languages in Korea?
I’ve been following the discussion at the Log with great interest, and this long comment by Jongseong Park (all of whose contributions to the thread are well worth reading) is so informative I had to share it here: The literary language in Korea was Classical Chinese until the end of the pre-Modern Era, continuing long after the invention of the … [Link]
Language Log » Phrasal trends in pitch, or, the lab subject's moan
It's been a while since I posted a Breakfast Experiment™ – things have been hectic here — but yesterday in a discussion with some phonetics students, I learned that certain old ideas about (linguistic) intonation have passed out of memory. And in trying to explain these ideas, I posed a problem for myself that is a suitable subject a little … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » maintenance strokes
What a man does to maintain his erection, usually while waiting for more porn to load or doing something else. I was doing maintenance strokes with porn running in the background while browsing 4chan.
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Language Log » Is Korean diverging into two languages?
Fearful that the languages of their countries are becoming mutually unintelligible, linguists from North Korea and South Korea are joining forces to create a common dictionary, as described in this article from the South China Morning Post: "Academics try to get North and South Korea to speak same language" (11/3/14) In a comment on a recent Language Log post concerning … [Link]
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